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Soumi answered on
Nov 06 2020
Running Head: NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STANDARDS IN AUSTRALIA 1
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STANDARDS IN AUSTRALIA 2
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STANDARDS IN AUSTRALIA
Table of Contents
Q1. Which domain of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Standards for Practice Enrol Nurses relate to reviewing and improving own practice. Briefly describe. 4
Q2. How many hours of annual continuing professional development must an enrolled nurse complete to comply with the NBBA’s Registration Standards: Continuing Professional Development 2016? 4
Q3. If an Enrolled Nurse has held registration for three months prior to the renewal of registration, how many hours of CPD (pro-rate CPD requirement) must this nurse complete? 4
Q4. Identify two rights and two responsibilities of workers relevant to reviewing and improving own practice 4
Q5. Identify two rights and two responsibilities of employers relevant to reviewing and improving work practices of employees 5
Q6. Why is it important for nurses to understand the effects of their values, beliefs and behaviour on their professional practice? 6
Q7. Briefly describe the process of professional reflection 6
Q8. Briefly describe how industry networking provides professional development opportunities for nurses 7
Q9. Briefly describe how engaging with professional associations provides professional development opportunities for nurses 7
Q10. Provide five training options available for nurses for professional development. 7
Q11. Briefly describe and provide two examples of the informal ways of learning and developing for nurses 8
Q12. Briefly describe and provide two examples of the formal ways of learning and developing for nurses 8
Q13. Complete the following table outlining the principles and techniques for Measuring progress and performance 8
Q14. Provide three examples of work methods that can help nurses to improve their performance 9
Q.15. Briefly describe three examples of work practices that can help nurses to improve their performance 10
Q16. What is meant by job shadowing? How could a nurse benefit from job shadowing? 11
Q17. Briefly describe the following three learning styles outlining how they relate to individual learners 11
Visual Learning Style 11
Auditory Learning Style 11
Kinaesthetic Learning Style 12
References 13
Q1. Which domain of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Standards for Practice Enrol Nurses relate to reviewing and improving own practice. Briefly describe.
The Reflective and analytical practice domain of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Standards for Practice Enrol Nurses (EN) relate to self-practice development. In the mentioned domain nurses reflected on their own experiences as evidences for improving their understanding of knowledge and skills, which are satisfy both psychological as well as professional learning needs (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2018).
Q2. How many hours of annual continuing professional development must an enrolled nurse complete to comply with the NBBA’s Registration Standards: Continuing Professional Development 2016?
In order to meet the NBBA’s Registration Standards, an enrolled nurse must complete at least 20 hours of service in the course of learning nursing (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016).
Q3. If an Enrolled Nurse has held registration for three months prior to the renewal of registration, how many hours of CPD (pro-rate CPD requirement) must this nurse complete?
If an enrolled nurse has held the nurse to comply with the CPD requirements (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016) must complete registration for three months prior to the renewal of registration 15 hours of CPD.
Q4. Identify two rights and two responsibilities of workers relevant to reviewing and improving own practice
Considered in the context of Australia, one of the rights of an employee is that he or she will serve for duration of 38 hours a week. Another right of the employee’s is to get detailed information about the nature of the job and its terms, in the fair Work Commission Statement (Lawbuddy, 2018).
In terms of responsibilities, employees are expected to abide the government standards of safety, after the complete their training sessions in respective organisations, which makes them responsible for their own safety. Secondly, abide by the regulations the employers have developed, while retaining the rights of the government norms, which include use of protective gear at the time of work (Government of Australia, 2018).
Q5. Identify two rights and two responsibilities of employers relevant to reviewing and improving work practices of employees
The employers have the right of hiring or dismissing employees based on their performance, to motivate the remaining taskforce for better performance. The employees, as identified by Beltran-Martin and Bou-Llusar (2018), remain their standard of performance higher than the one who was dismissed from job. In addition, employers also have the rights of changing organisational framework for improving performance without the approval of the employees.
As for the two responsibilities of the employers that are relevant for improving and reviewing the standards of practices of employees are the responsibility of offering a safe working environment at the workplace through period assessment of the condition of the workplace. Secondly, the providing of proper training for getting the desired outcome is the responsibility of the employers as well. As mentioned by Brown, Cernusca and Roehrich (2018), employers have to consider the fact that employees are unaware of the organisational needs and hence need training.
Q6. Why is it important for nurses to understand the effects of their values, beliefs and behaviour on their professional practice?
At the time of offering care services to care users, nurses had to go through long duty hours, which exhaust them mentally and physically. As the nurses had to serve despite getting...